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C. L. SPENCER. HAND RAISIN SEBDER.

Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

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CHARLES Il. SPENCER, OE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

HAND RAlSlN-SEEDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,975, dated January 14, 1896.

Application ledyugust 13, 1894. Serial No. 520,l79 (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. SPENCER, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of .Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hand Raisin- Seeders; and I do hereby declare that the folloivin g specifi cation, taken in connection with the dran-'ings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, in Which- Figure l represents a vertical side view, having' the hand or press lever in position as when inserting a raisin into the machine to be seeded. 2 represents a birds-eye view with the hand or press lever as broken oit. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the rearward end. Fig. ai is a side vier;r of a flexible wire, showing the manner of fastening the ends, the attaching of the seed-receiver, and the bottom of the raisin-receiving chamber. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view' in a plane centrally of and parallel to the greatest dimension of Fig. 2, showing the operation of the several parts in removing seeded raisins from the flexible Wires and delivering the saine into the receptacle in the front ot' the machine. Fig. G represents the blank as cut, from which a spongeholder is formed. Fig. 7 is the hand or press lever as removed from the machine.

My present invention relates to improvements in hand raisin-seeders in which a hand orpress lever is employed as lateral pressure against flexible wires; and it consists, lirst, in an operating-crank connected with a hand or press lever in combination with a connecting-rod and an oscillating arm; second, in the combination of an oscillating arm with a cured the sides C and D of the seeding-machine, as shown in Eig. 3.

It is not essential to my improved instrunient to attach the saine to a clamp, as a handle may be substituted in its stead, having one end projecting rearward sufficiently to be held by the hand. In either Way the seeder may be used conveniently.

Between the two sides C and D a number of flexible 1Wires J are arranged parallel to each other and ol the proper distance apart that seeds of raisins may not drop bet-Ween them. These Wires are lirst curved and soldered into end pieces, as represented in Fig. 4, the end pieces being then secured between the said sides C and D by riveting or soldering the same therein, by which means the ilexible Wires J are held in their places and said end pieces in connection with the bottom of the seed-receiver G, (which bottom extends to the side C through an opening cut in side D,) and through the continuous end II of one of the aforesaid end pieces tvvo separate receptacles are formed, one for receiving the seeds of raisins and the other for receiving the raisins after being seeded, as represented in Fig. 2 and in section, Fig. 5. The upper edges of the sides C and D are made to project a short distan ce above the llexible Wires J, that a raisin when placed upon said Wires may not be liable to drop therefrom. (Shown in Fig. 3.)

The hand or press lever I3, Fig. 7, is provided With pivots at its lower end, so that each pivot may lit to rotate through bearings in the front ends of the sides C and D. The pivot passing through side C is made to project the required distance for securing the crank I thereon, which may be held in place by a pin passing through the same, as shown in Fig. l. To the said crank I one end of the rod E is jointed, and its opposite end jointed to the arm E, which arm, being similarly connected to the side C at its lower end, with its upper or opposite end remaining free, is made to oscillate through the Working of the hand or press lever B when in use.

To the upper end of arm F is attached the shedder K and sponge-holder r, shedder K being provided with teeth ot' sufficient length and so arranged that they may be operated between the flexible Wires .I in delivering seeded raisins therefrom, as shown in section, Fig. 5. The sponge -holder fr is constructed from one piece of sheet metal, Eis. 6, bent to form twosides, and two ends (represented by dotted lines) having their edges IOO turned or bent inwardly, so that the expansion of the sponge may hold itself therein for its use, as shown in section, Fig. 5.

In the rotating of crank I, when passing and repassing its lower dead-center, a short oscillating motion is imparted rearwardly to the arm F, it being so regulated through the adjustments of the several connections in timing the shedder K to operate in concertV with the working of the hand or press lever B.

To use my invention, the hand or press le* ver B being in position and shedder K adjusted in its relation to the saine, as represented in liig. l, araisin may be inserted upon the flexible wires J'.` The lever B is then brought rearward, as shown by dotted lines, and while resting upon the raisin with sufiicient lateral pressure the seeds are forced between said flexible wires J into the receptacle below by springing the aforesaid ilexible wires apart. The lever B is then raised and swung forward in the opposite direction, as shown by opposite dotted lines, the crank I rotating with said lever B and being connected with the oscillating arm F by a connesting-rod E, as hereinbefore described, the upper or free end of arm F, together with shedder K and Ysponge-holder r, are swung forward over the flexible wires J, as shown by central dotted lines, at the saine time the teeth of shedder K removing the seeded raisin and carrying it forward to the receptacle formed in the front of the machine. Y(Represented holder r, being charged with water, meistens the iieXible Wires J by the reciprocating inotion forward and backward given it from thc Y Working of the machine. The lever YB is again brought in position as before, while the oscillating arm F returns rearward to its fornier place, Another raisin may new be inserted and the machine operated in the saine manner as hereinbefore described, and so on. alternately, through the process of seeding raisins.

I am aware that a hand or press lever has been used before with iiexible wires. Therefore I do not claim the saine broadly; but

Vhat I do claim as new, and desire to sccure'by Letters Patent of the United States. is-

l. The combination of the frame, the wires. the hand or press lever B, the crank arm l mounted on the pivot of said lever, the connecting rod E, oscillating arm F, and shedder K, substantially as described and for the purpose speeiiied. Y

2. The combination of the traine, the wires. the press lever I3, the oscillating arm I1V connected to and operated by the press lever, the shedder K, and sponge holder r, substantially yas described and for the purpose specified. 

